Oystertown » Directories http://www.oystertown.net Whitstable and its people Sat, 28 Jan 2012 23:22:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 1920 – Early Whitstable Telephone Numbers http://www.oystertown.net/1900-1924/1920-early-whitstable-telephone-numbers/ http://www.oystertown.net/1900-1924/1920-early-whitstable-telephone-numbers/#comments Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:01:18 +0000 admin http://www.oystertown.net/?page_id=577 The following is a list of the first 125 Whitstable telephone numbers and their owners. It is easy to see how the commercial sector was quick to take up this advance in technology, but as interesting are the private individuals who are included.

To have a telephone was obviously a sign of the more affluent residents.

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Pigots 1840.

WHITSTABLE

is a maritime village and parish in the hundred of its name and the lathe of St Augustine, six miles NW from Canterbury, and about

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